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Seizing the olive-wood stake, sharpened at the edge, they thrust (it) indeed into (his) eye; and I pressed (it) from above (lit: having pressed) and twirled (it), as when some man drill the beam of a ship with a drill, and others twirl beneath with a strap tied at both sides, so it runs unceasing ever; thus we seized (lit: having seized) the fire-sharpened stake and twirled (it) into his eye, and the blood flowed about it (the stake) being warm. And all the vapor of the burning eyeball tinge around his lids and brows; and the roots (of his eye) crackled by the fire.

English to Greek exercises:

1. He said that the vapor of the burning eye quickly destroyed also all his eyelid and eyebrow.